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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson And Arijeta Lajka Feb. 26, 2021 02:49 PM EST

A man shines a light in the abandoned Wanling cave near Manhaguo village in southern China's Yunnan province on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Villagers said the cave had been used as a sacred altar presided over by a Buddhist monk _ precisely the kind of contact between bats and people that alarms scientists. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng And Sam Mcneil Dec. 30, 2020 12:40 AM EST

A worker wearing a mask peeps out behind construction barrier with a notice depicting a bat and advocating for people not to eat wild animals at the airport in Kunming in southern China's Yunnan province on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. More than a year since the first known person was infected with the coronavirus, an Associated Press investigation has found the Chinese government is strictly controlling all research into its origins, clamping down on some while actively promoting theories that it could have come from outside China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng And Sam Mcneil Dec. 30, 2020 12:39 AM EST

Alaska SeaLife Center raises money to fund winter operations

Aug. 27, 2020 10:35 AM EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska SeaLife Center has raised enough money to remain open through the winter after a revenue loss stemming from the coronavirus...

In this April 2014 photo provided by the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, a researcher holds a ferret at their facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2020, the lab is working with 300 ferrets developing a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine candidate and testing other vaccine candidates and therapeutics. (VIDO-InterVac at the University of Saskatchewan via AP)
Monkeys, ferrets offer needed clues in COVID-19 vaccine race

By Lauran Neergaard Jun. 02, 2020 05:29 AM EDT

A woman in protective suit passes by a disinfection tent before she enters the departure area of Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Friday, May 22, 2020. Some airlines began flights in and out of the country as the capital eases it's lockdown while it continues to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
UK to start huge vaccine test; China reports promising hints

By Maria Cheng And Lauran Neergaard May. 22, 2020 05:38 AM EDT

This image released by National Geographic shows Dr. Jane Goodall walking along the beach of Africa's Lake Tanganyika in National Geographic's "Jane Goodall: The Hope," premiering April 22 on National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild and streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu. (Michael Haertlein/National Geographic via AP)
Jane Goodall talks coronavirus impact, Nat Geo documentary

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. Apr. 20, 2020 02:44 PM EDT